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Word: swankier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...White was torn down in 1913, replaced by the larger, more elaborate Greenbrier. But the resort continued to be known as The White. The C. & O. bought it, made it into one of the few U.S. luxury resorts to compare with Europe's swankier spas. Its 7,000 acres have three golf courses; there is a spur for private railroad cars, an airport for private planes. For five months, German diplomats and newsmen were quartered there before being exchanged for Americans held in Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: End of The White | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...around 1916, the year before Nettie started making clothes for her friends (and their friends) as well as for herself. For four years she did all her work in her brownstone house, but by 1921 so many customers were cluttering up her rooms that she moved to bigger (and swankier) space in the East Fifties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: No More Nettie | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...track, was given odd jobs such as checking the horses at the drinking trough on Derby day. Five years ago, Lindheimer's persistent hobby got the better of him. Hearing that Colonel Matt Winn* wanted to sell Washington Park (gradually being overshadowed by Chicago's newer, swankier Arlington Park), Lindheimer bought controlling interest in the track, became its managing director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Favorites | 8/19/1940 | See Source »

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